Earlier this year, at a literary festival in Jaipur, I met the Tamil writer Perumal Murugan. I had just finished reading his book “Poonachi,” which will be published in the U.S. this month as “The ...

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An academic and noted author in Tamil, Perumal Murugan has written 10 novels, five collections of short stories and poems besides several non-fiction titles relating to language and literature. His ...